Leisurely sea diving hurt dinos
August 17th, 2012 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 17 (IANS) Dinosaur-like creatures may have scarred themselves during leisurely deep-sea diving and not from resurfacing too quickly, as previously believed.A recent study identified bone deformities on the ... Read more...
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China fossil site in World Heritage list
July 2nd, 2012 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
St. Petersburg, July 2 (IANS) A site containing fossilised remains of 200 prehistoric marine species in China has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, Xinhua reported.The Chengjiang Fossil, ... Read more...
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140-150 mn-year-old dinosaur footprints found in Beijing
January 9th, 2012 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Jan 9 (IANS) Scientists, studying pre-historic life, have said that several hundred fossilised footprints found in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs who lived about 140 to 150 ... Read more...
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Oz scientists find 10,000-year-old stone carvings
February 12th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): Australian scientists have stumbled upon ancient stone carvings in an East Timorese cave dating back at least 10,000 years.Though they had been looking for the fossilised remains of ... Read more...
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Ice age graveyard reveals ancient mysteries
January 24th, 2011 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 24 (IANS) Scientists have stumbled upon an ice age graveyard where many huge mammoths, mastodons and a giant ground sloth died upto 150,000 years ago.
The fossilised remains, discovered ... Read more...
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World’s oldest known human ancestor was ‘threatened by sabre tooth cats’
January 4th, 2011 - 12:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 4 (ANI): A team of palaeontologists has come to the conclusion that the world's oldest known human ancestor was threatened by sabretooth species.The team from Poitier University have identified two ... Read more...
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Bigger brains make dogs friendlier than cats
November 23rd, 2010 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 23 (IANS) Domestication by humans helped dogs evolve bigger brains making them more friendly than their feline counterparts and other solitary species, say scientists.
The reason, they suggest, is that ... Read more...
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It’s official! Dogs are ’smarter than cats’
November 23rd, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 23 (ANI): A new study by scientists at Oxford University has shown that dogs are cleverer than cats because their friendly character has helped them develop bigger brains.The researchers ... Read more...
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Fossils of earliest land plants found in Argentina
October 13th, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 13 (ANI): Fossils of the oldest plants ever to colonise land have been found in Argentina, claim scientists.The new find puts back by 10 million years the colonisation of land ... Read more...
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Scientists unearth Great Barrier Reef’s 169,000-year-old great grandmother
August 20th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a more ancient reef than the Great Barrier Reef - just 600 metres away from it.This year, an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from ... Read more...
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Reptiles were first animals to conquer dry land
August 1st, 2010 - 10:41 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 1 (IANS) Ancient footprints made by reptiles 318 million years ago prove they were the first animals to conquer dry land, a media report has said.
The fossilised reptile footprints were ... Read more...
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3,000 years old monkey fossil found in underwater cave
July 22nd, 2010 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 22 (ANI): Fossilised remains of a tiny, extinct monkey have been retrieved from an underwater cave in the Dominican Republic.On examination, scientists said that the fossil could be around 3,000 ... Read more...
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World’s most ancient frogs face extinction
May 21st, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 20 (ANI): The New Zealand government's plans to throw open a conservation area to mining may result in the extinction of the world's most ancient frogs.The primitive Archey's frog (Leiopelma ... Read more...
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Chemical remains of 150-mn-year-old ‘dino-bird’ isolated
May 11th, 2010 - 4:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 11 (IANS) A 150-million-year-old 'dino-bird' fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilised bone and rock, has been hiding remnants of the animal's original chemistry, according to a new research.
The ... Read more...
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Lack of oxygen forced animals to breathe
February 11th, 2010 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Feb 11 (IANS) A massive plunge in global oxygen levels, not freshwater frolicking, could have led to the rise of air-breathing animals, argues a new study.
Researchers made the claim after ... Read more...
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Lack of oxygen may have forced fish to evolve into first air-breathing animals
February 10th, 2010 - 2:25 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Feb 10 (ANI): A new study by Australian scientists has determined that a global drop in oxygen levels may have been the driver that led ancient fish to leave the water ... Read more...
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Fossil footprints stretch history of our ancestors
January 9th, 2010 - 2:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 9 (IANS) Our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier than previously thought, suggests the discovery of fossil footprints in Poland.
These results force us to reconsider our ... Read more...
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Students validate 1924 dinosaur findings of paleontologist
December 15th, 2009 - 4:30 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Dec 15 (IANS) Three paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover that the original researcher had identified it right as an ankylosaur, Dyoplosaurus, and a ... Read more...
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Experts better than machines at reconstructing fossils
November 17th, 2009 - 5:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 17 (IANS) Reconstructing ancient fossils from thousands of jumbled up pieces can be fiendishly challenging. A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old ... Read more...
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Ancient aboriginals in Australia may have been faster than a speeding Bolt!
October 15th, 2009 - 1:46 pm ICT by ANI
Edinburgh, October 15 (ANI): A leading anthropologist has suggested that ancient aboriginals in Australia would have outrun Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive, while a Neanderthal woman would have crushed Arnold ... Read more...
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World’s forests were wiped out in global catastrophe 250 mln yrs ago
October 2nd, 2009 - 4:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 2 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that tiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago, appear to be a species of ancient fungus ... Read more...
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Eight-million-year-old elephant fossil remains found in UAE
July 5th, 2009 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, July 5 (DPA) Paleontologists Sunday announced that they found an eight-million-year-old fossilised remains of an elephant, a hippo and a giant ostrich in western Abu Dhabi, capital of the United ... Read more...
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Organic material in ‘dino mummy’ to give clues about its evolution
July 2nd, 2009 - 12:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 2 (ANI): A mummified dinosaur unearthed in North Dakota, US, may contain traces of 66-million-year old organic material, which could provide vital information about its evolution.The well-preserved fossil of the ... Read more...
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CT scanning performed on prehistoric turtle to find skull, eggs, embryos
April 16th, 2009 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 16 (ANI): The fossilised remains of a 75-million-year-old turtle, only the second in the world found with eggs inside it, underwent CT scanning at Bozeman Deaconess hospital recently.Knell, a ... Read more...
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Powerful x-rays may reveal secrets of ‘dinobird’ fossil
February 23rd, 2009 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 23 (IANS) About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur metamorphosing into a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilised in limestone.
About 150 years ... Read more...
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Dinosaur footprints, fossils found in central Peru
February 10th, 2009 - 11:14 am ICT by IANS
Lima, Feb 10 (EFE) Hundreds of footprints and the fossilised remains of various prehistoric animals, probably dinosaurs that lived 120 million years ago, have been discovered in the Ancash region of central ... Read more...
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Our ancestors sounded death knell of prehistoric animals
August 12th, 2008 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 12 (IANS) Human hunting sounded the death knell of large prehistoric animals like giant kangaroos, marsupial rhinos and leopards, rather than climate change as previously believed. People who arrived in ... Read more...
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New evidence blames humans for mass extinction of Tasmanias prehistoric animals
August 12th, 2008 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 12 (ANI): A new research, by UK and Australian scientists, has suggested that the mass extinction of Tasmanias large prehistoric animals was the result of human hunting, and not ... Read more...
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